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OSI Encapsulation

Hit play and watch a request get wrapped header-by-header on the way down the stack (data → +TCP → +IP → +Ethernet + FCS), cross the wire, and de-encapsulate on the receiver. Scrub the slider to step through it. The canonical encapsulation diagram, animated.

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SenderWireReceiver
// PDUDataSender
DATAGET /index.html
L7Application↓ encapsulate
L6Presentation
L5Session
L4Transport
L3Network
L2Data Link
L1Physical
L7 · application data
An HTTP request is handed to the stack as raw data.